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The author reflects on the impact of technology on one's sense of time. Topics discussed include the adjustment to the dramatic turnaround in epidemiology in human history, the author's relationship to time and the difficulty of banishing the memory of time's transience. Also mentioned is the tendency to recall time for the way in which technology changed the spatial and lineal dimensions of people's lives.

The article presents an assumption signifying that modern humans were some 92,000 years old. In a lecture, according to a professor, it has been declared that the world will certainly expire in 7 billion years. However, a student felt agitated and requested the professor to repeat what he has said. When the professor complied, the student has proven that he heard it wrong, because he was thinking that it was 7 million years.